The name Bill Gates is back in the spotlight. Not only because his predictions were linked to monkeypox, the Microsoft founder was accused of paying millions of dollars to stop Elon Musk from controlling Twitter.
Based on a Breitbart News report, Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) researchers identified hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from the Bill Gates foundation to 11 of the 26 organizations that signed an open letter last month urging Twitter advertisers to boycott the company if Elon Musk restores free speech on the platform. .
The New Venture Fund, which in 2020 received a one-year commitment from the Gates Foundation in more than half a decade, is funding four signatories:
The Center for Media Justice
The Media Democracy Fund
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (via the Media Democracy Fund)
Accountable Tech
The Tides Foundation, also a recipient of the Gates Foundation money, funds five signatories:
Free Press
Indivisible
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Media Matters
Black Lives Matter Global Network
The other two signatories are tied to Gates Foundation money:
Empowering Pacific Islanders Community (funded by Gates-supported Community Partners)
Reproaction (a project of Gates-backed NEO Philanthropy)
The existence of this FFO finding will certainly heat up the feud between Gates and Musk. At least this has been seen from the Tesla and SpaceX boss's response to the report in his latest tweet.
"What a dick move!," Musk said on Twitter.
What a dick move!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2022
Previously, Musk had mocked Gates by encoding it with a Pregnant Man emoji. "If you need to get rid of mistakes quickly," he wrote in the post.
I don't know what triggered Elon Musk to upload the tweet. But whatever the reason, it's not good enough to mock someone's physique.
But some netizens linked the mocking tweet to Musk's anger at Gates for trying to shorten Tesla's holdings of half a billion dollars. This could push Tesla's share price down.
Twitter user Whole Mars Catalog, which shared an image of a conversation between Elon Musk and Bill Gates. It is said that Gates texted Elon Musk to discuss "philanthropy" on climate change.
However, Elon Musk has confronted Gates by asking if he still has half a billion short positions in Tesla stock. Gates said, "Sorry to say, I haven't closed it yet", meaning that Melinda's ex-husband still holds a sizeable short position at Tesla, which could hurt Tesla's stock price.
An angry Musk responded to Bill Gates by saying he couldn't take climate change philanthropy seriously when he had a huge short position on Tesla, the company doing the most to solve Climate Change.
Twitter users tagged Elon Musk to confirm whether the incident was true. The richest man in the world responded by saying it was true, but he didn't divulge it to the New York Times.
“They must have gotten it through a friend of a friend. I heard from a lot of people at TED that Gates still has half a billion short in Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it's no big secret,” Musk said.
Perhaps because so many have responded to his tweets with criticism, Elon Musk has finally responded to his own tweets. "Shadow band board is reviewing tweets," he wrote.